silli — meaning in English

English meaning

• herring noun A small, oily silver fish found in large schools in northern seas, widely eaten fresh, smoked, or pickled.
• shad noun A type of herring-like food fish that lives in the sea but spawns in rivers.

Senses

silli is used for these senses in English:

• Atlantic herring Clupea harengus, an abundant species of herring and an important food fish living in the North Atlantic.
• herring Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
• shad Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.

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